Embracing Ocean Exploration

Accelerating ocean exploration.

COVER Young whooping cranes (Grus americana) follow an ultralight aircraft. Each year, endangered whooping cranes are reared in captivity and artifi cially trained by ultralight aircraft on their fi rst lifetime migration from Wisconsin to Florida. Analyses of data from subsequent unaided migration events show that migratory performance improves over many years and that social learning from old...

Sonar Behaviour in Non - Terrestrial Ocean Exploration

Introduction: A small number of moons in the solar system may harbour large bodies of liquid water beneath their surfaces. Of these, the postulated 'ocean' that may lie under Europa's crust is of particular interest and the utility of acoustic remote-sensing is discussed with emphasis on use in a Europan sea. Sonar as payload: The Huygens probe en route to Titan carries a 15 kHz non-beam formin...

Embracing interactions in ocean acidification research: confronting multiple stressor scenarios and context dependence

Changes in the Earth's environment are now sufficiently complex that our ability to forecast the emergent ecological consequences of ocean acidification (OA) is limited. Such projections are challenging because the effects of OA may be enhanced, reduced or even reversed by other environmental stressors or interactions among species. Despite an increasing emphasis on multifactor and multispecies...

Embracing Changes

Embracing change.